[GLLUG] Help converting from 32 bit to 64 bit OpenSUSE

[Chick Tower]

It sounds like your best bet would be to install the 64-bit version of 
OpenSUSE alongside your original installation, Dan, so that what you 
have now wouldn't be affected.  You would need to have additional, 
unused space on your hard drive(s), and it would be helpful if your home 
directory were on a separate partition from the rest of OpenSUSE.

Are you available this weekend to install the new OS?  If nobody else 
volunteers, I can come help you with it, although I have no experience 
with OpenSUSE.  (I have installed several other distros, and FreeBSD.) 
If you don't have the 64-bit version available, you should download it 
during the meantime.  If you don't have a broadband connection, say so, 
and Ben Chavez may have the DVD for it that he might let us borrow.


                                Chick

On 06/01/2012 11:02 AM, dburk at ws6transam.org wrote:
> Hi there,
> I've been lurking for the last six months or so. Part of my research
> system here at MSU's seismic department is a Linux computer I use for
> archiving seismic data. I am attempting to create a seismic database and
> have been bringing waveforms online for the past six months or so. The
> software for the database file serving system requires a 64-bit
> installation but the computer was configured as a 32-bit OS.
>
> Time's getting short, and I'm a basic user. What I don't want to do is
> hose the computer whilst trying to upgrade. I tried that on my home linux
> system, and it's now dead- I'll probably have to do a reinstall to revive
> it. Is there anyone near campus who would be willing to assist me in
> converting this system so that I can get my Antelope 5.1-64 package going?
>
> The hardware appears to be there: It's an AMD Athalon X2-250 dual-core,
> and there looks to be about 1.8GB of RAM loaded on-board. I'm just not
> confident that I can get it right the first time by myself. The IT guys
> here in Natural sciences are disavowing any LINUX knowledge, saying that
> they don't know how to deal with non-mainstream operating systems. (???)
>
> -Dan Burk
> MSU phone 355-8397
> cell: 388-2875
>
> mailto:burkdani at msu.edu